diff --git a/exampleSite/content/introduction/releasenotes/7/1.en.md b/exampleSite/content/introduction/releasenotes/7/1.en.md
index 3e54ac4e20..ce631aef7e 100644
--- a/exampleSite/content/introduction/releasenotes/7/1.en.md
+++ b/exampleSite/content/introduction/releasenotes/7/1.en.md
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ weight = -1
You don't need to change anything in your existing installation as the old configuration is used as a default.
+- {{% badge style="note" title=" " %}}Change{{% /badge %}} The [`children` shortcode](shortcodes/children) was changed to output a page's _LinkTitle_ instead of previously using the _Title_.
+
+ As the shortcode always outputs subpages in context of the parent page, it functions similar to the sidebar menu. The sidebar menu itself uses the _LinkTitle_ for naming the menu entries and so should the shortcode do.
+
+ The parameter value `sort=linktitle` was deprecated for the easier `sort=title`. You can still use the old value but both behave the same way in sorting by _LinkTitle_.
+
### New
- {{% badge style="info" icon="plus-circle" title=" " %}}New{{% /badge %}} Menus created by your page structure are now able to [contain arbitrary links](configuration/sidebar/menus#displaying-arbitrary-links-in-a-page-menu) inserted into the structure using the `menuUrl` or `menuPageRef` front matter.
diff --git a/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/children/_index.en.md b/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/children/_index.en.md
index bc96f1dcc6..443e1c7fef 100644
--- a/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/children/_index.en.md
+++ b/exampleSite/content/shortcodes/children/_index.en.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The `children` shortcode lists the child pages of the current page and its desce
| **showhidden** | `false` | When `true`, child pages hidden from the menu will be displayed as well. |
| **description** | `false` | When `true` shows a short text under each page in the list. When no description or summary exists for the page, the first 70 words of the content is taken - [read more info about summaries on gohugo.io](https://gohugo.io/content/summaries/). |
| **depth** | `1` | The depth of descendants to display. For example, if the value is `2`, the shortcode will display two levels of child pages. To get all descendants, set this value to a high number eg. `999`. |
-| **sort** | `auto` | The sort criteria of the displayed list.
- `auto` defaults to `ordersectionsby` of the page's {{% badge style="green" icon="fa-fw fab fa-markdown" title=" " %}}Front Matter{{% /badge %}}
or to `ordersectionsby` of the configuration {{% badge style="cyan" icon="gears" title=" " %}}Option{{% /badge %}}
or to `weight`
- `weight`
- `title`
- `linktitle`
- `modifieddate`
- `expirydate`
- `publishdate`
- `date`
- `length`
- `default` adhering to Hugo's default sort criteria|
+| **sort** | `auto` | The sort criteria of the displayed list.
- `auto` defaults to `ordersectionsby` of the page's {{% badge style="green" icon="fa-fw fab fa-markdown" title=" " %}}Front Matter{{% /badge %}}
or to `ordersectionsby` of the configuration {{% badge style="cyan" icon="gears" title=" " %}}Option{{% /badge %}}
or to `weight`
- `weight`
- `title`
- `modifieddate`
- `expirydate`
- `publishdate`
- `date`
- `length`
- `default` adhering to Hugo's default sort criteria|
## Examples
diff --git a/layouts/partials/_relearn/pages.gotmpl b/layouts/partials/_relearn/pages.gotmpl
index fb50069baa..f364678678 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/_relearn/pages.gotmpl
+++ b/layouts/partials/_relearn/pages.gotmpl
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
{{- if eq $by "weight" }}
{{- $pages = $page.Pages.ByWeight }}
-{{- else if or (eq $by "name") (eq $by "title") }}
- {{- $pages = $page.Pages.ByTitle }}
-{{- else if eq $by "linktitle" }}
+{{- else if or (eq $by "name") (eq $by "title") (eq $by "linktitle") }}
{{- $pages = $page.Pages.ByLinkTitle }}
{{- else if eq $by "modifieddate" }}
{{- $pages = $page.Pages.Lastmod }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/shortcodes/children.html b/layouts/partials/shortcodes/children.html
index 279616ac60..ac11f5c112 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/shortcodes/children.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/shortcodes/children.html
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@
{{- if hasPrefix $.style "h" }}
{{- $num := sub ( int (trim $.style "h") ) 1 }}
{{- $numn := add $num $.count }}
-{{ (printf " " $numn)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .Title }}{{ else }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}{{ (printf "" $numn)|safeHTML }}
+{{ (printf " " $numn)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ else }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ end }}{{ (printf "" $numn)|safeHTML }}
{{- else if eq $.style "li" }}
-{{ (printf " <%s>" $.style)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .Title }}{{ else }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}
+{{ (printf " <%s>" $.style)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ else }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ end }}
{{- else }}
-{{ (printf " <%s>" $.style)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .Title }}{{ else }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}{{ (printf "" $.style)|safeHTML }}
- {{- end }}
+{{ (printf " <%s>" $.style)|safeHTML }}{{ if .RelPermalink }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ else }}{{ .LinkTitle }}{{ end }}{{ (printf "" $.style)|safeHTML }}
+.LinkTitle{{- end }}
{{- if $.description }}
{{- with or .Description .Summary -}}
{{ . }}
diff --git a/layouts/partials/version.txt b/layouts/partials/version.txt
index 736ea62c81..56785c8305 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/version.txt
+++ b/layouts/partials/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.0.1+10fb679d67466ad0b5f5563c6892220a7a95eb21
\ No newline at end of file
+7.0.1+41a1e95d1eb3169d1238a078b0f2f0cf2f6246d6
\ No newline at end of file